Jack the Ripper: The Definitive History
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'A must-have addition to the shelves of anyone interested in this iconic Victorian mystery.' Gilda O'Neill, author of My East End 'The clearest, most accurate, and most up-to-date account of the Ripper murders, by one of Britain's greatest and most respected experts on the autumn of terror in Victorian London.' William D. Rubenstein, Professor of Modern History, University of Wales, Aberystwyth'One of the most important Ripper releases of the past several years...one of the best overarching accounts of social conditions in London's East End, as well as the history and internal politics of both the police, government and press organizations of the time.' Casebook: Jack the RipperEngland in the 1880s was a society in transition, shedding the skin of Victorianism and moving towards a more modern age. Promiscuity, moral decline, prostitution, unemployment, poverty, police inefficiency...all these things combined to create a feeling of uncertainty and fear.The East End of London became the focus of that fear. Here lived the uneducated, poverty-ridden and morally destitute masses.
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